Except for perhaps in his bed with Josephine, he felt more at home on a battlefield than anywhere else.
They set off down the trail, passing the six horses ahead of them, the riders standing at attention for their general.
"General, you might remember Sargeant Pelletier."
Like Laurent, a fictional character, created by Cussler.
It [a gerron] was [a shield] used by Persian light infantry soldiers."
The traditional shield of Persian infantry, the gerron was a figure eight shaped shield made of whicker covered with leather. In combat the soldier held the shield by a vertical grip in between the crescent-shaped concave indentations of the gerron. Unfortunately for Persian troops the light construction of the gerron did not stop heavy weapons like spears from puncturing the relatively flimsy whicker. Although it continued to be used later on during the Empire the gerron was often discarded in favor of a hoplon-style shield.
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